just finished watching all of the 90s Ruby Spears Mega Man show with the wife and im so sad there isnt more. i love these doofy robots, esp Gutsman and Cutman who are totally married and Protoman and Dr. Wily bc Scott McNiel is hilarious
been inactive due to a reeeeeeaallly rough art block. guess working retail five yrs and letting my art dev fall by the wayside along the way has finally caught up to me, now that i finally quit the job.
but i wanted to say im getting back into it thanks to my wonderful supportive wife, and we have a lot of rly cool Fright Hammer projects in the works rn💖 we're excited to share em with yall soon!
SO ive seen some fellow hammer blogs postin abt the christ imagery in the drac death scene of Satanic Rites
and i wanted to post my own thots on the subject🤓
more under cut
tldr: Drac is definitely not a jesus boy
After reading approximately two whole chapters of Richard Cavendish's book on The Black Arts (a good beginners read so far), im learning that satanists have a contrarian method of reversing christian and "white magic" symbols in like any way possible (ex: turning the star of Solomon's seal upside down to turn it into the fallen star of satan; turning crosses upside down, tho that is also a catholic symbol for St Peter's crucifixion as he insisted he wasnt worthy to be killed upright)
fra angelico's crucifixion piece as an example
Dracula's deathscene after stumbling out of the hawthorne bush, said to have made jesus' crown of thorns
the majority of this sequence is shot with one important detail: Dracula is on the ground, upside down.
he is bound head and FOOT with nature's wooden nails but still loose enough to swipe blindly at Helsing
Lorrimer Van Helsing grabs a sharp spear-like fencepost. Drac is still shown upside down with a thorny crown. A ghoulish reversal of jesus rolling in the dirt and gnashing beastly fangs in his final moments
He places it under his ribs on his right side and uses the force of gravity to pierce DOWN into drac's heart. This is what KILLS drac. crucifixion relies on gravity to slowly asphyxiate you from a high up place until you die. in the christian lore, jesus was long dead before the executioners pierced his left side to be sure he had died.
jesus' stabbing was done upwards with little effort, and with much less empathy. as horrible as drac was, lorrimer seems to pity him in his wretchedness.
Drac expires brutally but rather quickly. There's not enough time to rub embalming fluids and myrrh on this sucker (besides, salts and spices are ABHORRENT to demons bc of their preservative/disease preventing qualities)
and no one around except helsing to tend his remains (snatch his signet ring). (image source: @canolacrush 's legendary post
Tho like christ, Dracula's death saved mankind from certain doom, DRAC WAS TRYING TO CAUSE THAT DOOM WITH HIS 4 HORSEMAN PLAGUE PLAN IN THE FIRST PLACE🤪
so in a nutshell, i feel that im def reading a lot more into this shit than i should be! but wouldnt it be interesting if the writers were bookending their satanic panic drac movie with dracula dying in a pseudo-ritualistic-reversal of christ just as a double irony twist? i have NO IDEA what that would accomplish but 😆
those are my thots! had to put that catholic college diploma to use somehow, preciate yall readin!
